China's semiconductor equipment companies are increasingly being pursued by international venture capital

China's semiconductor industry has always been weak suddenly became the object of u.s.. "First Financial Daily" yesterday was informed that, at present only 12 inch semiconductor factory production equipment company - micro semiconductor company (hereinafter referred to as "micro") won several U.S. firms $35 million (about 280 million yuan) joint injection. Walden International, Lightspeed venture partners, red venture, Midwest partners, bay area partners, global catalyst partners, the United States Department of investment continued to play the role of the investment day. Goldman Sachs, an international investment bank. In the first round of financing two years ago, the Shanghai municipal government has worked as an investor and venture capital together to inject $about 30000000.

China's semiconductor equipment companies are moving towards the core link of the semiconductor industry chain. Just a week ago, the largest domestic equipment manufacturers in the North microelectronics formally signed a contract with SMIC, which is the first time the domestic equipment into the world's three largest semiconductor foundry production line.

In the national semiconductor industry in 11th Five-Year plan, the semiconductor equipment industry is also the core planning projects. Ding Wenwu, deputy director of the Ministry of information industry has stressed that in 2006 China semiconductor annual meeting, the next 5 years, China will strive in the 6 inch line equipment independently, the 8 inch line lithography machines and other equipment to achieve practical breakthrough 12 inch line 65 nanometer lithography machine.

Nevertheless, the domestic semiconductor equipment market is still the world of foreign companies. The United States applied materials, such as the development of a number of companies have almost monopolized the field, leaving only the local enterprises are very low-end, auxiliary application space. SEMI (global semiconductor equipment and Materials Association) at the end of September the latest report predicted that the next three years, China semiconductor factory equipment total investment will be $2 billion 33 million, $2 billion 53 million, $2 billion 556 million. According to preliminary statistics in 2004, China accounted for only less than 1/50 local equipment.

Yin Zhiyao, chairman and CEO of the first financial daily said, which will accelerate the company's latest production equipment successfully introduced into the market. According to reports, the company's latest series of equipment is currently stepping up testing, there are two semiconductor companies initially signed a procurement agreement.

The United States chairman of Walden International Vc firm Lip-BuTan said, is to continue to invest in micro reason, Asia is becoming the world's largest semiconductor equipment base digestion, and the main reason Yin Zhiyao leadership team is their consideration.

In a market source said, with the application of materials, equipment and other global nuofa giants in the main China resale of second-hand equipment, while the micro will be high-end equipment R & D, production center is set up in Asia, especially Chinese, can directly design and production according to customer requirements.